PeterLI wrote:Read up on CD-ROM interfaces:
Sony
Mitsumi
Matushita / Panasonic / Creative
LMSI / Philips […]
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Read up on CD-ROM interfaces:
Sony
Mitsumi
Matushita / Panasonic / Creative
LMSI / Philips
Many 1X & 2X CD-ROMs were proprietary back in the day (e.g. not IDE / ATAPI).
Virtually all 4X or higher CD-ROMs are SCSI or IDE / ATAPI. So a Mitsumi IDE goes on the IDE port: not the proprietary Mitsumi port.
It wasnt always the proprietary interface thats was used back in the days, also IDE exist then.If its was IDE, it doesnt says its ATAPI compatible.. Normal IDE drives where used on the IDE interface of the soundcard..
(these drives couldnt work on a controller card (ISA OR VLB) or IDE interface on the motherboard)
Why i know IDE also exist back in the days is because, those `goldstar` drives where very popular, and mostly it came bundled in a multimedia kit..
I have one of these goldstar GCD-R540C here and its really an IDE drive from november 1995.. IDE drives are recognizable by there CS/SL/MA setting behind the drive..
Mitsumi made indeed proprietary drives and IDE ones.. But i guess that IDE CD-ROM kits where more expensive then, so most people bought a proprietary drive kit instead.
The topic starter needs to connect that drive to an IDE only interface(on the soundcard or seperate CD-ROM IDE ISA BOARD. (but also that one from the soundcard requires an IDE cdrom driver to enable the drive.)
So mitsumi proprietary drives needs to connect to the mitsumi header, mitsumi IDE to the IDE interface.. If you are using the right cable, connected how it needs to be, have the right setting, have the right drivers, then the drive should work.
~ At least it can do black and white~